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Shana Hoehn is an artist working across sculpture and video. Her research and artwork are a personal and historical inquiry into the aesthetics that allegorize the femme form. Conjuring imagery from her girlhood psyche and the female body in car culture, the medical imagination, pop-culture, and military-industrial objects, she disorganizes these sites of control and fantasy in such a way that retires their previous symbolic performance. Hoehn transforms metals, wood, and existing objects through a back and forth process of digital and traditional modes of fabrication, allowing for collapsed time, and a shared space for relaxation, rage, and camaraderie for the altered forms. Hoehn received her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Installation Art in Mexico where she conducted research on customs surrounding home altars. Hoehn has participated in residencies and fellowships such as the AIR Program at Artpace San Antonio (upcoming), the Jan Van Eyck Academie, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lighthouse Works, Acre Residency, and SOMA Summer.

Jouw boog werd uit het Amerikaans vertaald door: Anne Marie Koper